NYLI News

March into Uniform! Old & New ULA @ NYLI…

Uniform Commercial Code…. Uniform Telehealth Act… Uniform Probate Code… Who designs and sews up these uniforms anyway, lol?

Around since 1892 (and still active!) – the Uniform Laws Commission provides all 50 States with non-partisan and well drafted legislation for vital areas of state statutory law.

The ULC has also developed Model Laws. Jurisdictions may […]

By |March 18th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on March into Uniform! Old & New ULA @ NYLI…

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group March Online Meeting

LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group will meet at noon via Zoom on Thursday March 21st .  We will discuss Family style : memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham (also available at NYPL).   Please see our LibGuide for past and upcoming titles.

Please contact, Eileen Dolan at edolan@NYLI.org to be added to […]

By |March 18th, 2024|Announcements|Comments Off on LLAGNY’s Graphic Novel Book Group March Online Meeting

Celebrate March with NYLI’s Irishmen — Brady, O’Connor & Emmet

Irish immigrants have been part of the American landscape since before the American Revolution…

Great resources of Irish History…& both available in NYLI’s eBook collection….

And some early & notable members of The NY Law Institute were Irish American Lawyers. There’s Thomas Addis Emmet….

“Thomas Addis Emmet” photograph from The Emmet […]

By |March 13th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Celebrate March with NYLI’s Irishmen — Brady, O’Connor & Emmet

Legal Research for Beginners

NYLI’s Director of Innovation & Engagement, Ellyssa Valenti Kroski, will be giving a webinar for the American Library Association (ALA) on Law Librarianship for Beginners.  In this webinar, participants will learn the fundamental elements of finding legal materials, including primary sources like constitutions; statutes; court opinions and case law; regulations; and administrative decisions. Kroski […]

By |March 11th, 2024|Announcements, News from the Field|Comments Off on Legal Research for Beginners

This month… on NYLI T.V. .. Shirley Chisholm!

We are in the middle of March… Women’s History Month… and who better to have on our NYLI T.V. set (which doubles as pencil holder photo frame, lol!)… than Brooklyn’s own – Shirley Chisholm!

Want to know more about the life of Shirley Chisholm? Then tune into NYLI’s eBook collection….

Available at NYLI […]

By |March 6th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on This month… on NYLI T.V. .. Shirley Chisholm!

Kate Stoneman: First Woman to practice law in New York

We’d like to start off March — Women’s History month — with an appreciation of Kate Stoneman, the first woman to practice law in New York. Kate Stoneman, from a farming family in upstate New York , graduated New York Normal College and taught for forty years…. And Kate was an instrumental member […]

By |March 4th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Kate Stoneman: First Woman to practice law in New York

Arturo Schomburg … definitely a polymath!

The term polymath is rarely used — as it seldom truly applies to an individual’s breadth of talent & abilities…..

Oxford English Dictionary — ultimate authority for definitions – available electronically to NYLI members…

But polymath is the exact word for capturing the many talents of Arturo Schomburg….

Writer, Historian, Curator, & Activist…..

Arthur A. Schomburg: 1904 […]

By |February 28th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Arturo Schomburg … definitely a polymath!

LLMC-Digital British-English Resources Webinar

The New York Law Institute offers web-based training sessions to help you discover new resources and enhance your research with LLMC-Digital, an extensive archive of historical primary and specialized legal materials covering the U.S. federal and state governments, the British Commonwealth, other foreign countries, and various international organizations. Remote access to LLMC-Digital is included […]

By |February 26th, 2024|Announcements|Comments Off on LLMC-Digital British-English Resources Webinar

George Washington…. General… President… Flower?

General… President (our Country’s first)… George Washington’s reputation often resides in his role in the American Revolution…As his eulogist famously noted, Washington was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”

Military Costume of the Revolution… one of NYPL’s many public domain images of G.W.

Washington’s leadership was a […]

By |February 21st, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on George Washington…. General… President… Flower?

Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer

Obviously, Abraham Lincoln is immediately identified as a U.S. President….

The Posey Building of Shawneetown, Illinois, in which Abraham Lincoln and Robert Ingersoll had law offices ; photo circa 1937 & courtesy of NYPL

But it could easily be argued that Lincoln is the still the best lawyer who ever became President….Lincoln is […]

By |February 20th, 2024|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer